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With Piston
OpenStack,
customers will enjoy:

Fine-grained configuration
of multi-tier storage pools for
improved performance and costefficiency

A wide range of options for

software-defined networking:
Juniper Contrail, PLUMgrid,
and VMware NSX

Zero-downtime orchestrated
updates and upgrades of the entire
cluster
Scale-out and scale-in by adding
or removing servers without
reconfiguration

Deploying Piston
OpenStack on Bare-Metal
Hardware
Piston and Quanta QCT have partnered to offer customers a high
performance and cost effective bare-metal software on bare-metal
hardware OpenStack solution. The solution makes deploying
and managing Piston OpenStack, running on a certified Quanta
QCT platform, ridiculously easy, and delivers 100% of the core
OpenStack services and APIs without modification.
Piston OpenStack is a software product that uses advanced systems
intelligence to orchestrate an entire private cloud environment using
commodity hardware. It delivers software-defined storage, compute,
networking and management via APIs and a self-service web portal.
You connect three or more servers (referred to as cloud nodes) with
switches for data and management traffic, and Piston OpenStack
manages them - presenting them transparently to your enterprise
as a single resource. If demand increases you can connect new
servers and Piston OpenStack automatically scales to manage tens
of thousands of nodes.

Solution Benefits
The solution features the latest release of Piston OpenStack 3.0
running on certified Quanta QCT Xeon-based hardware and low
latency L2/L3 network switches, providing a complete private
cloud environment with high performance and comprehensive
management, and CAPEX and OPEX savings that are hard to
match.
The bottom line: Achieve the business agility of cloud computing, at
less than a third of the cost of public cloud.

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Solution Overview
Piston OpenStack is a software product that uses advanced systems intelligence to orchestrate an entire private cloud
environment using commodity hardware. It delivers software-defined storage, compute, networking and management via
APIs and a self-service web portal. It allows users to increase their data center efficiency through automation, reduce capital
and operating costs, and increase agility while maintaining flexibility and freedom of choice. Pistons Null-Tier Architecture
is a unique hyper-converged model that distributes compute, storage, networking, and administrative services across every
node in a massively scalable any node to any node high availability framework.
Pistons Moxie RTE is the worlds first complete runtime environment purpose-built for global-scale distributed systems.
While typical configuration management approaches address this using a single master server configuration profile for
the database, with slave profiles for one or more HA failover servers, Moxie RTE uses a master election approach: at
runtime, any one of the nodes in your cluster is elected to operate each service. If the process, the network connection, or
the hardware in that node fails, the service is seamlessly re-elected to run somewhere else.
The Dashboard includes a few extra panels within this dashboard, exposing live migration as well as storage and networking
management features unique to Piston. Users can get a complete real-time picture of what is happening in their cloud. For
administrators, the dashboard also exposes control of the easy one-click install, scale-out, and update processes.

Key Components

The following components are supported and shipped in the Piston OpenStack 3.0 release:

Component

Version*

Driver

OpenStack Identity

Keystone 2013.1.5 (Grizzly)

(n/a)

OpenStack Compute

Nova 2013.1.5 (Grizzly)

KVM + QEMU 1.6.1 + VMS

OpenStack Block Storage

Cinder 2013.1.5 (Grizzly)

Ceph 0.67.5

OpenStack Object Storage

Ceph 0.67.5 (Dumpling)

Swift and S3 APIs supported

OpenStack Image

Glance 2013.1.5 (Grizzly)

(n/a)

OpenStack Network

Neutron 2013.1.5 (Grizzly)

Juniper OpenContrail, PLUMgrid, VMware NSX

Monitoring

SNMP v2

Optional Ganglia agent

Linux Kernel

3.10.17

(n/a)

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Recommended
Server
Configuration
Each Piston OpenStack cluster requires a
minimum of three nodes and can scale to
support up to 250 nodes. This provides up
to 2.4PB of highly durable block or object
storage, and 4500 vCPUs. Multiple clusters
can be federated together to provide a single
API and UI experience across up to 30,000
physical nodes.

Node Type

Hardware Type

Specification

Comment

Cluster Node

CPU

Multi core, multi socket

AMD-V or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions

enabled

RAM

24GB minimum

96GB or more recommended

Drives

2 or more 500GB or higher HDD

SSD recommended for distributed block device performance

Network

1x 10GB data port + 1x 1 GB mgmt

port

CPU

Multi core

RAM

4GB

Drives

1 or more 256GB HDD

Network

1x 10GB data port + 1x 1GB mgmt

port

Layer 3

10GbE

Data switch

Layer 2

1GbE

Management

Boot Node

Networking

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The Quanta QCT products below are recommended for deploying Piston OpenStack 3.0 cluster.

Node Type

Model

Memory

Disk Bays

Networking

Cluster Node

S210-X12RS

6x 16GB DDR3

3x 3.5 Hot-Swap HDD, 1x

2.5 Intel 530 SSD

1x 10GB dual port SFP + mezz

Boot Node

S100-X1S1N

1x 8GB DDR3

2x 3.5 Hot-Swap HDD

1x 10GB dual port SFP + mezz

mezz

Data Switch

T3048-LY2

48x 10GbE SFP + ports + 4x

10/40GbE QSFP + uplinks

Management
Switch

T1048-LB9

48x 1GbE RJ-45 ports + 4x 10GbE

SFP + uplinks

Licensing and
Support
Piston OpenStack is licensed on a per-node,
annual subscription basis. It includes access
to the Piston update service, and a 24x7x365
support agreement.

About Quanta
QCT
Quanta QCT, a leader in commodity
hardware, provides a comprehensive line of
server, storage and networking solutions to
datacenter and enterprise customers. Each
server and storage system is specifically
designed to provide optimal performance
with minimal footprint, power, and cooling.
Additionally, Quanta QCT offers customers
a hard to match CAPEX and OPEX. For
more info visit www.quantaqct.com.

Supprted Guest VM
Operating Systems

Windows 7, 2008 R2, 2012 R2

Ubuntu: 10.04, 11.04, 12.04, 12.10 13.04, 13.10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
CentOS 6.x
Fedora 20
OpenSUSE 13.1, 12.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11SP3

Next Steps
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